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The Right Country - Connection Problems

You are here because you might be having connection problems to our station. First let us help you get connected the easy way.
Normally all you should have to do is click on the ICON for your media player from the Loud City page and it should automatically start up and connect to the stream. but it's not working and you are getting a file to download or nothing is happening at all.

Even though we pay Loud City to keep our buts in the clear with the royalties sometimes there web-servers are very slow and thus we lose you the listener.

We apologize for that so in retrospect we offer you the old way of connecting to the Loud City Server to listen to our stream. Your counted as a listener either way - with a direct link to the stream server with your own media player that you choose to use to listen to us with and or through the Loud City web-server page with the media players they offer.


Back To The Old Way of Connecting

The First reason is the file extension used by your media player may not be correctly associated with the default player. For example Windows Media Player is the default player for Windows but if you have installed Real Player or Quicktime, Winamp etc. during the installation (the setup) all the players want to be the default player automatically, and thus the operating system (your computer) can get confused, your favorite player now won't work and/or the icons have changed and you cannot connect automatically like you used to.
This happens when a new media player installation uses the same playlist-link file as the default player and you may have other media players also using the same playlist-link file. Your computer may end up not knowing what to do with the file and thus open the wrong program or it gets stuck.

The Second reason is - the (open with) part of your operating system - Windows - has been changed or modified. (brings us back to reason one) You don't need to un-install the players that you have, they just need to be reassigned to the appropriate file and or extension so it can work correctly. Most Media Players properties/settings will allow you reset it's file types that the player can handle thus fixing reason two.

The Third reason: As mentioned you may be getting a file to download from the main page when you click on the icon to listen to the radio station. If this happens to you, your computer's media player is not recognizing a playlist-link file, and your computer is not recognizing what program is used to open a playlist-link file, so you end up with your computer asking you to download a file. This is ok for it's our playlist-link file that point's your media player to our Loud City stream server. You could save the file to your desktop. A lot of listeners do this for it makes it simpler too tune in to the station.


The playlist-link file's we are using are for the following programs:

For Broadband Internet
TRC-96-BB.asx === Default Windows Media Player
TRC-96-BB.m3u === Default Winamp Player
TRC-96-BB.pls === Default JetAudio Player
TRC-96-BB-ram === Default Real Player.

For Dial-Up Internet
TRC-DialUp.asx === Default Windows Media Player
TRC-DialUp.m3u === Default Winamp Player
TRC-DialUp.pls === Default JetAudio Player
TRC-DialUp.ram === Default Real Player.

To download the playlist-link file for The Right Country please right click with your mouse on the chosen icon below
"SAVE TARGET AS" and save the file to your deskop.

CABLE - 96 kbbs         DSL - 65 kbbs         Dial-Up - 32kbbs